Book
1493 for Young People: From Columbus's Voyage to Globalization
- Published
- 2015
- Genre
- Children's
- Pages
- 416
- URL
- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23995476-1493-for-young-people?ac=1&from_search=true
Reading measures
- Lexile
- 1110L
- Suggested reading age
- ages 14–17
- Ambleside year
- Year 9 onwards · ages 14–17
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1493 for Young People by Charles C. Mann tells the gripping story of globalization through travel, trade, colonization, and migration from its beginnings in the fifteenth century to the present. How did the lowly potato plant feed the poor across Europe and then cause the deaths of millions? How did the rubber plant enable industrialization? What is the connection between malaria, slavery, and the outcome of the American Revolution? How did the fabled silver mountain of sixteenth-century Bolivia fund economic development in the flood-prone plains of rural China and the wars of the Spanish Empire? Here is the story of how sometimes the greatest leaps also posed the greatest threats to human advancement.
Tags
ColumbusExplorationHistorySocial Studies-GeographyUnited States of America